Pointy End AWAY From You. Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

[sith_happened]

"Hello and welcome to Pointy End AWAY From You," Anakin began, dressed in slightly more casual clothing today, which meant he'd ditched the robe and was only in the rest of the Jedi uniform ("how to drop your robe like an absolute drama queen, OBI-WAN" was a class for later). "If you were under the misimpression this was a workshop on not running with scissors, you're out of luck."

Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was wearing the full ensemble. (And EXCUSE YOU, Anakin, you had perfected the drama queen robe-drop.) "Rather, we are here to examine some of the fundamental types of weaponry you may come into contact with," he said, "and how to use them responsibly, so that no one accidentally loses a limb."

Deliberately, on the other hand...

Just stand there and gloat with all your original limbs, Obi-Wan. No biggie. Anakin crossed his arms over his chest (replacement ones that Obi-Wan HADN'T cut off) and nodded. "In the grand tradition of the first week of classes, we want to get an idea of your experience. If you've never stabbed a guy before--" his face said "amateur" even if his mouth didn't, "--or if you've been doing hand-to-hand combat since you could walk...it'll change how we teach you."

"And please let us know your name and the regularity of violence in your home universe, as well," Obi-Wan said.

Yes, with all of his original limbs. Which had never gotten chopped off. Not even once. (Thus proving that in the field of limb removal, Anakin was an outlier and should not be counted.)

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Re: Answer their questions!

[saddeserthermit]

"I am hardly about to judge anyone acting in self-defense," Obi-Wan said, because if he was, he'd be even more of a hypocrite than he already was in general. "Though... pitchforks?"

It seemed both excessive and rather needlessly clumsy.

Re: Answer their questions!

[tigerundercover]

"It wasn't always pitchforks," Raven allowed. Or, you know, even more than once. "But the angry mob thing happened all the time."

Re: Answer their questions!

[saddeserthermit]

"I am sorry," Obi-Wan said, and meant it. "That is nothing a child should bear. How did you make it through?"

Re: Answer their questions!

[tigerundercover]

"I got a lot better at hiding," Raven said. "And then I met my brother and he wasn't afraid of me, so he took me in. I'm a shapeshifter," she explained. "That tends to freak people out, back home."

Re: Answer their questions!

[saddeserthermit]

"Shapeshifting is a somewhat unusual talent," Obi-Wan said, "But not unheard of, where we are from, and hardly deserving of persecution."

He cleared his throat as he tried to wind it back to the topic at hand. "I suppose that makes you capable of manifesting some amount of weaponry yourself?"

Re: Answer their questions!

[tigerundercover]

"A little. I haven't tried it that much, but I've made my hands into ice picks before. Mostly I just turn into someone big or with sharp teeth or something."